June 7, 2011
Grass Mosaic
Garden Unique, a new premium outdoor section of spoga+gafa opening in September in Cologne, Germany, is sponsoring Garden Goes Balcony, a design contest inviting new or established designers to submit fresh ideas for creative balcony spaces. … Read More...
Category: Container Gardening, Experiencing, Garden Design, Green Walls, Herb Gardens, Rooftop Gardens, Window Boxes
Tags: balcony gardening, balcony gardens, living walls, Vertical Gardens
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June 4, 2011
I noticed when I was last in Paris that most, if not all, public parks and urban gardens in that city offer free wifi. Kyle Daevel’s inflatable PVC Nomadic Knowledge Worker Environment and Chair, according the the Chicago designer,”questions the … Read More...
Category: Finding, Great Finds, Outdoor Furniture
Tags: garden pods, inflatable environments, inflatable garden furniture, inflatable outdoor furniture, outdoor offices, portable garden furniture
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June 3, 2011
Organizer, Sean Martindale’s intervention.
Within a 24-hour period between Saturday May 20th and Sunday May 21st, 2011, a group of 17 Toronto based artists, designers, gardeners and urbanites collaborated to create unique planter “interventions” of throughout the city in a … Read More...
Category: Experiencing
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June 2, 2011
Guest Post by Joy Bennett
Remember back in 2009 I wrote an article for Urban Gardens called My Black Thumb? Well, after paying a fortune to professional landscapers to keep my yard looking good, I decided to try my hand … Read More...
Category: Creating, Herb Gardens
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June 1, 2011
Gustafson Guthrie Nichol’s Lurie Garden, Millenium Park, Chicago. Plantsman: Piet Oudolf. Theater Set Designer: Robert Israel.
Urban gardens are featured prominently among the designs of landscape architects selected to receive the 2011 Landscape Architecture Award, part of the National Design … Read More...
Category: Experiencing, Garden Design
Tags: awards, design awards, landscape architecture, public space design, sustainable design, urban design, urban parks design, urban spaces
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